Learning Objectives
1. Articulate the career and personal brand impact of thinking on autopilot especially project managers and business analysts
2. Take stock of your personal critical thinking tool kit including identification of gaps and development areas
3. Explain how to be a thinking partner and not a thinking replacement with your team and other stakeholders.

Your brain is the most powerful tool you have. Unfortunately, it can also be your worst enemy. The human brain has been shaped by eons of evolution for one solitary purpose - keeping us alive in a threatening environment long enough to successfully reproduce. Unfortunately for us, the automatically generated habits and patterns of thought, or mindsets, that helped our ancestors survive back then can be useless or even actively harmful when applied in modern-day situations. As a result, faulty mindsets and autopilot thinking - and our inability to detect these "mindfields" before they blow up in our faces - can cause problems ranging from failed projects at work to relationship woes at home, as well as the many other seemingly inexplicable disasters that crop up in our day to day lives.

Learning Objectives

1. Articulate the career and personal brand impact of thinking on autopilot especially project managers and business analysts

2. Take stock of your personal critical thinking tool kit including identification of gaps and development areas

3. Explain how to be a thinking partner and not a thinking replacement with your team and other stakeholders.